How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

I hate to put tags on things, because tags change, and they change with the requirements made on them.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal. (97)

Nothing mortal is enduring, and there is nothing sweet which does not presently end in bitterness.

We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.

It is illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy or gender. It is not illegal to talk about it.